Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

["Steve" <stephensmith@octa4.net.au>]

"Philip Shortus" <Shortus@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Roger Lloyd <rogerlloyd@optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> > As an expat NSW railfan living in Victoria for the past 28 years, I
object
> > to the NSW press and some misguided railfans calling the old single
decker
> > electric cars "red rattlers". This is a term unfortunately stolen from
> > Victoria where it was used (quite correctly) to describe the Tait cars
on
> > the Melbourne suburban system - believe me, they did rattle and shake!
> They
> > had two sliding doors for each compartment (one each side) and loose
> fitting
> > windows and, like the old P class Sydney trams, really required some
form
> of
> > diagonal bracing to stiffen them up. When they started to move, the
> > underframe moved first and the roof followed, if you get what I mean. By
> > comparison, the Sydney Leeds type cars were steel bodied and gave a firm
> and
> > solid ride and DID NOT RATTLE!!! With their high seat backs they were
more
> > comfortable than Tangaras and newer stock.
> > Roger Lloyd
> >
> >
> Hey shut your mouth, don't talk about the "red rattlers" like that,
typical
> Victorian's always having a whinge about Sydney just because we "take"
your
> words, just cause Sydney had better single deck suburbans than in
Melbourne!
>
>
If Sydney's single deckers were so good amigo, why did you gringoes replace
them???